Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Phone call with recruiter, technical interview on the phone, then onsite with 4 interviews. Following the interviews, there was a sell call with a few potential hiring managers. After which I could select a team. The recruiting team informed me that the compensation would be the same regardless of the team.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Company came to our college for internships. First there was an online round, which consisted of technical questions, 2 programming questions, and behaviorial questions.
After that, some students were selected, and there was an face to face interview round. total 9 pepople were selected from my college.
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Question 1
Questions based on my resume, and standard ds algo questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2019
Interview
Online assessment, (2 non LC coding questions on Heaps) followed by 5 rounds in onsite interviews
Serialize De-serealize BST, Google search autocomplete, LRU Cache, Design TinyURL (Bar Raiser), Manager round Behavioral
A lot of Leadership principles